Six Things You Can Focus On Today to Increase Your Blogging Results

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Last week I shared a little of my blogging story with you, by giving you a look into how I make money by blogging and selling blogs. As I mentioned, I’ve been at this since 2006. I’ve been through the ups and downs of both blogging for a company, as well as blogging for myself. … [Read more]

How I Successfully Make Money Building and Selling Blogs

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I’ve been creating content online since 2006. I started out building a camping website with my husband, which we would work on in the evenings after the kids went to bed. We came up with the topic through keyword research and looking at the stats. It was purely about the stats, because let me tell … [Read more]

New WordPress Plugin – P3 (Plugin Performance Profiler)

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A new WordPress plugin authored by GoDaddy has been released. The P3 (Plugin Performance Profiler) “creates a profile of your WordPress site’s plugins’ performance by measuring their impact on your site’s load time.” Many plugins can cause major issues with WordPress sites, but this plugin helps profile and report performance issues. If you have ever had … [Read more]

Parenting Blogging is a Business, Let’s Work on Treating It That Way

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Parenting blogging is a business. That’s what Type A Parent founder Kelby Carr expressed today (November 4th) at BlogWorld Los Angeles. In her session entitled “Parent Bloggers Mean Business: Building Success, Respect, Confidence and Income”, she covered some fantastic points on ways parent bloggers can step it up to the next level and be taken … [Read more]

Three Books Written For Bloggers by Bloggers

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I’ve really been into reading books about blogging lately and have snatched up some good ones I think you should know about. Two are geared specifically for mom bloggers and one is for anyone who blogs. As bloggers, I truly believe we should continually be educating ourselves about this ever-changing industry. Allison gives us some … [Read more]

Three Ways to Use Twitter Lists to Build Blog Traffic

When I first signed up for Twitter, I didn’t use the list function at all. I didn’t even realize they had one, and I was following so few people that it didn’t really matter whether or not I had them categorized. As I began to “meet” people online and the number of people I followed … [Read more]

About.com Reveals “The Three Mindsets of Search” Study Findings

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About.com released their findings of “The Three Mindsets of Search” study that I thought was very interesting. As I am writing up a blog post, I do focus on keywords and a few other basic SEO principles, but am offering what the people who arrive at my blog were searching for? Am I catering to … [Read more]

How Not to Pitch to a Blogger

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I’ve been blogging for about 6 years, so I have a few PR connections. Which means my inbox is full (overflowing!) with pitches from PR companies everyday. I can tell when a pitch is personal and I can tell when it’s been copied and pasted and sent to 1000s of other bloggers. If the pitch … [Read more]

A New Way to Share Images with mrror.com

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A super easy new way to share photos from your webcam was released today. It’s called mrror and I’ve been playing around with it a little this morning. Mrror gives you a quick way to posts photos to your blog or social media streams. You can also send a quick photo via email or IM. … [Read more]

Another Google Panda Update Made Late Last Week

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Have you noticed any changes in your blog traffic or rankings the last few days? I’ll be honest. I’ve been so busy I haven’t even checked my stats lately, but I am definitely about to after reading this latest news. I’m crossing my fingers it’s good news. Google confirmed to Search Engine Land that they … [Read more]